Speaking the incomprehensible God : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology /

Rocca, Gregory P., 1949-

Speaking the incomprehensible God : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology / Gregory P. Rocca. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource (xxv, 412 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

A brief survey of negative theology in the hellenistic and patristic traditions -- God's dual incomprehensibility in Aquinas -- Aquinas' Via negativa -- Analogy in Aristotle -- The various meanings of analogy in Aquinas -- The unity and diversity of analogy as a web of predication -- Analogy as judgment in Aquinas -- Aquinas and the existence of God the creator -- Aquinas' crucial theological truths -- Aquinas' positive theology of the divine names -- The distinction between the reality signified and the manner of signification -- Conclusion : speaking the incomprehensible God.



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Thomas, d'Aquin, saint, 1225?-1274.


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Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
God--Knowableness--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.


Electronic Books.

BT98 / .S643 2004